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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Foucauldian discourse analysis"”.
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Eco-anxiety. Constructing the term in psychology and psychotherapy. A Foucauldian discourse analysis
… power in reproducing neoliberal environmental discourses that depoliticise eco-anxiety. Following a social constructionist approach, this study employed the method of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) to analyse the data collected via eight semi-structured interviews with practising …
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Exploring "medically unexplained symptoms" with GPs and counselling psychologists : a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
… yet fit uneasily within a biomedical discourse where illness is legitimised by medical diagnosis. "MUS" supposedly operates as a neutral category, yet critical review of the literature problematises this so-called neutrality: it fails to be neutral whilst avoiding depicting the …
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Socially constructing healthy eating: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of healthy eating information and advice
… of England. The research aimed to uncover the discourses used in healthy eating texts in the UK, how people positioned themselves in relation to these discourses and the power relations between institutions and the UK public. Method: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was applied to a range of …
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Whither Color-Blind Love? A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Love in Black and White
… Using this text as a means of access to the discourses surrounding interracial marriage in the post-Civil Rights era, this study applies the key Foucauldian concepts of discourse, power, subjectivity, and critique to an interpretation of this text in relation to its sociohistorical context. …
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Environmental integration in infrastructure planning: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of the trans-European transport network
… 'paradigm'. This thesis investigates how Foucauldian discourse analytics, embracing concepts of discourse, power/knowledge, rationality and space can contribute in sensitising planning research to power. A Foucauldian approach is developed which problematises the construction of …
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Subject positions of British South Asian women with inflammatory bowel disease: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… links to overarching sociocultural and medical discourses, and what the disciplines of counselling psychology (CP) and health can do to improve it. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with eight BSA women with IBD and analysed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). …
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Psychotic creativity. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of alternative conversations about mental illness and mental health
… three young adults to create alternative discourses to trouble and unsettle the dynamic of power between service provider and service user through the interweaving of hybrid discourses. Three young adults with a diagnosis of psychosis have shown how they use creative art forms to construct …
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Confronting White Femininity in Community-based Social Work Practice: An Autoethnography and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
… feminine project. Additionally, this dominant discourse conceals the racial segregation prominent in the field of social work that prevents Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people from gaining entry into the profession. While Whiteness and its effects within social work have been a …
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Power, identity, and social positioning in the professional lives of Black counselling psychologists: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… their professional and racial identities. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, the study identified several discourses among the participants, including practices of self-preservation and social activism. The analysis reveals that the participants’ identities are not fixed or uniform but are …
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Muslim women of South-Asian origin’s constructions of assisted reproductive technologies in the UK: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
This study employed Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA) to explore South-Asian-Muslim women’s talk about Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) in the context of their socio-cultural environment. A critical review of the literature demonstrated the problematization of ARTs and women in the …
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How do counselling psychologists in the UK construct their responsibilites to the wider world? : a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… about their responsibilities to the wider world. Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was applied to the transcript of the interviews. Different constructions of the relationship between counselling psychology and the wider world were identified in the transcript and located in four wider discourses: …
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How do counselling psychologists talk about doing therapy with working class clients in an IAPT setting?: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… settings. The interviews were analysed using Foucauldian discourse analysis, which takes into account structural hierarchies beyond the text. Findings: Three main discourses emerged from the data: ‘class is seen and heard, but not talked or thought about’, ‘intrusion of poverty’ and ‘mind the …
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An exploration of how mental health service users construct meaning from the Work Capability Assessment process - using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
… in the Work Capability Assessment process. Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was used to explore how service user’s constructed the Work Capability Assessment process, and how they were constructed through their involvement in the process. Participants were constructed as “fraudulent versus …
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The social construction of professional counselling practice in UK embedded higher education counselling services: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of practitioner perspectives
… and the transcripts were analysed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). The study identified four dominant discourses: Academic achievement, Life-stage, Mental-health crisis and Professional counselling practice which were seen to influence the counsellor role as they manifested …
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"There’s literally nothing else I can do apart from cope": a Foucauldian discourse analysis of shame, coping, and the operation of power in parents' narrative accounts of adolescent substance use
This qualitative study applied a Foucauldian discourse analysis to explore the discourses which characterised and constructed parents' narrative accounts of their experiences of parenting an adolescent who misused substances. The analysis identified three dominant discourses; risk management, moral …
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Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal
… applies a social constructionist framework and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to demonstrate that while Tsotsitaal was perceived by many respondents as a language of gangsters and criminals, evidence suggests that it is actually part of an ongoing identity construction for young, black, …
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Responding to institutional child abuse in Ireland: a Foucauldian analysis
The research study was carried out, using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, (FDA) and involved the analysis of three statutory reports into institutional child abuse in Ireland: The Cussen Report (1936), The Kennedy Report (1970) and the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (2009). In addition to …
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